Owen Wilson reveals that his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Owen Wilson says that while his father having Alzheimer’s disease is “A rough thing,” he also knows that there are things to be grateful, for, including that his father is being cared for at at home and he has plenty of people around who love him.

“It is a rough thing,” Wilson told the Dallas Morning News in his first public comment about his 74-year-old father’s illness. “It’s one of those things where if somebody had said 10 years ago, when my dad and I were joking around, having a putting match, that this is the position your dad’s going to be in, where he basically needs 24-hour care, you’d think, ‘Gosh, I won’t be able to handle that. That’s just not possible,'” Wilson said.

Owen Wilson grew up in Dallas and revealed that he’s taking everything day by day. “You just have to do your best to deal with it. You’ve got no choice but to accept it. And then, you sort of still look for the things to be grateful for.”

Owen Wilson’s father is a longtime executive. He worked on the TV affiliate, KERA, during the mid sixties and it was a major influence on his acting career.

“For me and my brothers, there just wasn’t a bigger influence on us,” Owen Wilson, who has starred in movies including Wedding Crashers, told the newspaper.

Owen Wilson is currently promoting his new movie No Escape, a thriller about a businessman who is on vacation with his family but is forced to save his family after the government is taken over by terrorists.Wilson, 46, said it’s a role he couldn’t have played without first becoming a father himself.

‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ finished filming this weekend.

First it was Captain America: Civil War then it was Independence Day 2, and now X-Men Apocalypse is on the list of wrapped movies this weekend.

Filming of X-Men Apocalpyse, which began shooting in April (Montreal, Canada), has finished. “That’s a wrap on main unit,” Singer wrote on his official Instagram account. “But still more to shoot over the next few weeks with second unit. But now…the wrap party!”

#wrap party #xmen #xmenapocalypse #apocalypse #Montreal

A photo posted by Bryan Singer (@bryanjaysinger) on Aug 22, 2015 at 7:46pm PDT

That’s s wrap on main unit. But still more to shoot over the next few weeks with second unit. But now…the wrap party! #xmen #xmenapocalypse A photo posted by Bryan Singer (@bryanjaysinger) on Aug 22, 2015 at 7:11pm PDT

X-Men: Apocalypse is directed by Bryan Singer from X-Men: Days of Future Past. X-Men: Apocalypse is based on a script written by Simon Kinberg (Fantastic Four). TheX-Men: Apocalypse cast includes Jennifer Lawrence, Olivia Munn, Rose Byrne, Michael Fassbender, Sophie Turner, Oscar Isaac, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Lucas Till, Ben Hardy, Josh Helman and Lana Condor.

FX releases the new teasers for American Horror Story: Hotel and it’s AMAZING.

After pretty bad reviews that followed last year’s American Horror Story: Freak Show, many have been hesistant about giving Ryan Murphy another shot at his horror anthology series. The announcement of Lady Gaga reveals that there will be more musical episodes and while that gimmick was interesting once, it will be interesting to see how it pans out this season on American Horror Story: Hotel. 

The new season will head back to a single environment similar to Murder House and Asylum, where a majority of the story will play out. As we have learned from horror movies like The Shining, a hotel can be a very frightening experience.

Well, yesterday, American Horror Story: Hotel released teasers for the new season. While, not much is really revealed in these clips, we are given a close look at two characters that will be featured in the new episodes.

The more diverse the cast, the more money a TV show or movie makes

It is a pretty well documented fact that Hollywood is a predominately white industry. But, in a comprehensive study on diversity in the media, UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center African American Studies determined how disconnected the TV and film industries are from the United States as a whole.

Typically, women and minorities remain underrepresented in Hollywood. Their numbers range as low as 1/12th to 1/2 their general population figures.

This is pretty much old news. People have been complaining about Hollywood’ lack of diversity for the past twenty to thirty years. However, this study examined over 1,061 TV shows. “In television, we looked at 1,061 shows,” said Dr. Darnell Hunt, director of the Bunche Center. “We literally looked at everything on TV. Everything.”

One of the most interesting parts of the study was the “cost” of diversity. It is assumed that movies and TV shows that feature a predominately male and white cast generate more profits than projects featuring women and people of color. However, the study found that diverse casts actually receive higher ratings, while diverse movies make way more money. For example, movies with a large amount of minority involvement made $160.1 million in global box office earnings in 2011. Meanwhile, movies that did not have a lot of diversity made only $68.5 million.

It is hard to deny the impact diversity has had in the TV industry in this year alone. Fox’s Empire was the most watched TV show in 23 years. In fact, N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton demonstrated that audiences are extremely interested in diversity. The N.W.A hip-hop biopic is the number one movie for two weeks in a row earning nearly $100 million in two weeks. There are now reports of a Master P biopic, and a sequel to the Straight Outta Compton. 

Numbers don’t lie. If Hollywood is interested in making money, than it would be in their best interest to include more women and minorities in their TV shows and movies.

Source: Mic.com

13-year-old child actress, Rowan Blanchard confronts racism and feminism head on in a recent Instagram essay.

Several years ago when Project Casting first started posting casting calls and entertainment news, there was a rumor that Disney was a holding an open casting call for the lead role of the Boy Meets World spinoff, Girl Meets World. Evidently, Disney was looking for the next child star and casting directors decided to cast Rowan Blanchard. Since then, Girl Meets World is a perfect mix between 90s nostalgia and modern day comedy.

Recently, the 13-year-old child actor wrote a three-part essay on the importance of “intersectional feminism” on Instagram.

Blanchard responded to a Tumblr user asking for her thoughts on the the term “white feminism”. Blanchard posted an essay discussing the importance of including different viewpoints, including African American women as well as transgender women.

“The way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality,” the actress wrote. “Likewise with trans-women and Hispanic women.”

In the essay, Blanchard references the work of Columbia Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who first argued for “intersectionality” in 1989. She also praised The Hunger Games’ Amanda Stenberg, who called out white singers for appropriating black culture.

“To only acknowledge feminism from a one sided view when the literal DEFINITION is the equality of the sexes is not feminism at all,” she continued. “We need to be talking about this more. Discussion leads to change.”

You can read her full essay on Instagram.

Source: TheWrap